Burning issue with my SP L10

Hey guys, have a slight problem with my Cd writer on my l10, i try to burn audio and when i burn any tracks on a blank cd the first few seconds of every track seems to skip.
I have tried two different blank cds, one JVC and the other a non branded one..
Anyone else had any simular probs?

Well the JVC "high quality" cds I am using was only 8x
The latest one I did was 24x on nero
Now I use windows media player to burn and it seems to be fine.

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Recently when i decided to format my computer, things started to fail.
The OS install went fine, all drivers installed just fine with the exception of the NVidia SW drivers. When I opt to install these drivers, whether it be v 5.03, or 5.10, the system will hang if I insert a cd into the cd rom drive. It attempts to read, then the system will totally hang.
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What i've read in these threads is that if I select to use PIO and not DMA on the cd rom ide channels in windows/bios, the burner would fine with Nero. With DMA turned on, the program will hang during the 'checking discs' window just before the burnging process begins. The burner doesnt even attempt to see the cdr in the drive.
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Is this a known issue with the board or drivers?
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Your thoughts will be much appreciated..
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Got some more information based on the advice on this thread.
I tried removing all the 12 IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, and once rebooted, winxp would fail to startup.
So I restarted with the last known working settings, then I narrowed it down to the middle one of each of the channels to be the most important.
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- Primary IDE Channel 3
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- Secondary IDE Channel 2
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- Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 2
- Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 3
After removing all 1 and 3's. A 'scan for hardware' change automatically detected them again and automatically installed them again with the MS drivers.
I have also tried the end ide connection from the 3 connector ide cable I was using, and still no luck.
Channel 0 with both the hdds installed are using the red round ide cable. While Channel 1 with the single burner is installed with the standard flat grey ide cables.
Bagmaster: This is the funny thing though. When i first built the computer, the burner was working absolutely fine with Nero. It wasn't until I format the computer and decided to use 5.10 drivers that it gave me problems. I then did another format with the old 5.03 drivers and yet, still no luck...
The problem mysteriously popped up after the format, and just doesn't want to go away.
tomkas: I may attempt your idea. I will let you know what comes from it. Hope it doesn't force me to make yet another format of the system.. I have done once too many on this computer than I'd done for my old Intel system for 4 years...
syar2003: Hmm, i'm not quite sure if these grey ide cables are 40 or 80pins. I've been using these since the early 2000's with my intel computer. Heck, i didn't even know they upped the pins?? I thought ide cables fit all new and old drives [whether they be hdd or cd drives]

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